Online resources for the home winemaker.

Small winery equipment and fermentation supplies:

Napa Fermentation Supplies (Napa Valley)

Pat and Colleen Watkins support Napa Valley winemakers with equal parts of supplies, equipment and advice. They also provide a retail ticket outlet for the Home Winemakers Classic - telephone (707) 255 6372.

The Beverage People (Santa Rosa)

The home base for North Coast winemakers, providing winemaking equipment and supplies. The store has been in operation since 1980. Byron Burch and Nancy Vineyard are the proprietors. You may request a catalog/newsletter in July each year with winemaking procedures and articles of interest.

Homebrew Adventures (North Carolina)

A retail source for amateur winemakers and brewers, located in North Carolina. Sign up for your own email address of "yourname@homebrew.com

The Uncorked Cellar - Excellent wine information and wine collector software

Viticulture information and resources:

European Vitis Database

Backyard Bacchus is a Bay Area team specializing in small-scale custom vineyard development and maintenance. They can supply those rare and elusive wine grapes we will all need a couple of months from now. Naturally, they're winemakers in their spare time.

Exceptional north Georgia real estate, minutes from Georgia's Wine Highway

Information about how to make and bottle wine:

Winemaking Home Page (The mother of all home winemaking sites)
"for the Beginner, Novice and Seasoned Hobbyist. Maintained by Jack Keller of Pleasanton, Texas.

The Joy of Home Winemaking

Dedicated mostly to the art of fruit wine.
(Who could resist "The Vin de Moi - My recipe for Bradbury Dandelion Wine"?)

Winemaker Magazine

Articles in this practical magazine take a hands-on, step-by-step approach to help everyone from beginning winemakers working with kits to advanced winemakers who start with fresh fruit.
The Home Winemakers Manual
by Lum Eisenman
By chapter online, or as a PDF download.

Wine Making and Beer Brewing

Wine & beer making information for novices and pros.
Also features The Bar Stool forum.

Wine clubs and sites by home winemakers:

Cellarmasters Home Wine Club - the Premium Home Wine Club in the Los Angeles area. Winemaking advice, recipes, annual competition.

Valley Girls have been featured in Wine Spectator Magazine, Wine and Food Magazine, and the Gene Burns show, among others.

Bentley Cellars compete nationwide and take top honors for both wine and labels.

M2Vintners a versatile team winning awards far and wide. Bonded one of these days?

British Columbia Amateur Winemakers Association

"The British Columbia Amateur Winemakers Association (BCAWA) is an affiliation of winemaking
clubs in British Columbia Canada in which we share information, winemaking skills, competitions,
winery tours, wine judging, and other wine related information among our members."

Events and regional information:

Local Wine Events.Com

World-wide listing by city and region of tastings, dinners, lectures and other wine-related events. You can add your own event, subscribe to a newsletter of events in your area, and more.

Wine Tasting Events Cellar Tastings - Worldwide Food, Wine and Gourmet Travel Events.

Robin Garr's Wine Lover's Page

A diverse and comprehensive wine resource.

Westsong's Napa Valley Online Listing by city, region and month of dinners, tastings, classes and education in the wine and spirits industry. You may add your event to their calendar. The #1 Napa Valley information source for visitors and residents since 1996. Nothing like it.

SeekOn/Napa

Resource listing for Napa County.

Arthur P. Johnson's Wine-People.com... interviews, articles, tasting notes & wine recommendations, events & news, forums.

BlueWine.com

A comprehensive search engine for the world of wine, spirits and events.

When Dot Com

Online calendar for wine events.

Cellar Tastings

International Food, Wiine and Gourmet Travel Events

vineSwinger

A new site featuring virtual tours of area wineries, monthly prizes... "home of recovering wine snobs and enthusiastic sensualists.

Napa Life

On-Line magazine for visitors and Napa Valley residents.

Wine-Search Online

A wine-specific search engine developed for enophiles.

Wine Zone

A travelers' online guide to Northern California's wine country, including regional wines and wineries, where to make online reservations for lodging or balloon rides, and much more.

Zymurgy Forum

"Celebrating the Fermenting Arts."

Strats Place

Celebrating the Joy of Wine, Gardening, Food, and the Arts; Home of the Wine Label Library, lots of Wine Reference Material; Flower Garden Pictures, perennials, wildflowers and much more.

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